Philips 32PW9527

I also bought the 32PW9527 in January. For five months I have been very happy with the picture quality. Then I started to notice a black bar at the bottom of the screen. This grew in size to as high as 2 inches from the bottom of the screen. This also caused the picture to distort and when viewing teletext, the picture to bounce. I am returning the TV this weekend and after reading reviews from this site and others, will be asking for my money back or at the very least a replacement model. Most likely a SONY which is the make I had for eight years before buying the Philips widescreen TV. I only hope I do not have to go to go down the legal path too. ...  Read the complete review

Purchase this TV in January - we were looking for the best quality wiescreen picture and were sold this model. After 5 months the colour altered suddenly and dramatically. Retailer sent out engineer who told us it required a new tube. New tube installed. No improvement of the problem. Retailer sent out another engineer. Could not identify problem and once again took it in to repair. I am now told the repair agent could not fix the TV. Retailer told me that Philips have inspected the TV and said it works to the "manufacturers specification". Repair agent tell me Philips have not looked at the TV as they don't need to. This is not an uncommon ...  Read the complete review

The problem I have with this TV is an intermittent "black screen" (lasting a second or 2)preceded by a loud click. This happened once on the day it was delivered. Contacted retailer (QED-UK) who said if it happens again, they would replace it. It didn't happen again..... for 5 months. Then it happened a lot, finally after a particularly loud crack, the colour became extremely "washed out". Retailer then said it would have to be repaired by "Endeva" (some sort of agent for Philips, I think.) Two weeks after repair, fault returned. Also, the sound now intermittently mutes, I have to switch it off/on to get sound back (same fault as 32 PW ...  Read the complete review